How can I backup Hotmail to Hard Drive?

Hi, I was an Hotmail account user but currently when I am working with a company I was suggested to use Thunderbird email client application. Therefore, I would like to take the backup of my old Hotmail emails and would like to convert to .eml file format so that I could use with other email applications. Can anybody please help me out and please guide me a quick solution.

Hi, to copy Hotmail emails to Hard Drives as an EML file please do the following steps:

** Open the Hotmail email message.
** Select View message source and select the files.
** Then copy the desired file and through the browser save the message as an .eml file.
** Next, choose the file >> Save As...
** Finally, change the file name as “eml.eml” or in .eml file format.